Poem: 'The Swing' by Robert Louis Stevenson

[dwgm]

Probably the first poem I ever memorized. I loved swings as a kid, and this really captures the rhythms of it, and the picture in the book was wonderful!



How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside--

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown--
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!


~.~

Comments

[mary684.livejournal.com]

*big grins* Nice way to start this spring day! Thank you!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

Another great poem!

"A Child's Garden of Verses" is one of the first books I remember reading and one that I keep managing to collect in different editions. I often find myself singing "dark brown in the river/golden is the sand" when I'm driving along one of the river roads in town. (The St. Joseph, which begins and ends in Michigan, bending down toward the south in Indiana - which gives South Bend its name. I don't live there but do work there.)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

So happy this brought a smile to your face. A Child's Garden of Verses is such a wonderful book, I really treasured my copy when I was a kid.